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These damn gang signs... they're even being used in the animal kingdom.

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Jokes aside, I've seen plenty of cases of spontaneous cooperative hunting. Tuna and one other predator (some of the various billfish species, maybe? Can't remember...) often go after the same bait schools. But I've not ever heard of active communication between different species of predators yet. That's amazing.

Nature red in fang gets the job done. Killing prey genes must be in DNA of all creatures. Nature is a kill or be killed proposition.

Which reminds me of the Screaming Eagle working as a team with a high altitude Killer Eagle.

And that is similar to Carlson's Raiders Patrol tactics used in jungle on Guadalcanal tracking a Japanese Brigade that was marching through the jungle to get behind the Marines.

Carlson's Chinese tactic was to march parallel to the superior force and then strike at its rear guard causing the column to turn and go back into the fight whereupon the Raiders attacked the Japs from the flank, and then disappeared until doing it over again, and over again.

Really cool! I observed this behavior on two separate dives. The groupers were clearly following the eels and I filmed it intending to ask an expert about. So thrilled to see that there was something going on.

I've eaten them both and they're tasty. Neither are difficult to catch, like say the wiley trout. And, both are quite tasty. Eel is sweet ala rabbit. Eel is a traditional Italian dish among some coastal regions.